Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
32 %
Reviews Counted: 84 Fresh: 27 Rotten:57 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus:
This formulaic screwball comedy is weighed down by a contrived, overly complicated plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Theatrical Release: May 14, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $11,827,301
Synopsis: Things are looking bleak for Quincy Watson (Jamie Foxx, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY and BOOTY CALL). His company is firing people left and right and his heartless fiancée Helen (Bianca Lawson) has just taken off for Paris with his best man. What else is there to do but sit around the house in an old bathrobe... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Esposito, Peter MacNicol
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12/19/04
Digresses into that hazy zone where we're not sure if we're watching overwrought drama or a joke that just isn't funny.
09/16/04
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06/05/04
it's all very silly and highly unbelievable, but the five main leads are all having a good time.
06/01/04
With a little more polish, Daniel Taplitz’s quick-witted romantic comedy might have lived happily ever after.
05/27/04
Breakin' All the Rules doesn't break any rules at all. It's just a by-the-numbers romantic comedy.
05/22/04
Everybody involved in Breakin' All the Rules -- especially the audience -- deserves something more than this tedious excuse for a movie.
05/19/04
sticks to the rules of too many lame sitcoms and unfunny comedies past, which the doomed actors follow like lemmings off a cliff
05/18/04
If one movie could prove once and for all that dating is a blight on humanity, this dismal, depressing flick could be it.
05/18/04
Top Critic
Breakin' transcends cliches thanks to Jamie Foxx's irreverence and charm
05/17/04
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